I can wait 
I listened to “Should I Stay Or Should I Go”. Well done! My favorite part was watching how much you were enjoying playing. You are great with the camera. These goals you have will help you learn a lot. On to the next one!
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@pkboo3 Thank you very much Pamela. That’s really nice of you. Your message definitely made me smile ! 
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Wow Mathieu!
Just clicked on this thread for the 1st time… what a ton of work you’ve put in on this project & what results!!! You are really, doing great with the Rock Songbook… I’m inspired!!!
This looks like something that brings you from the Beginner stages onto a real Stage!!! You definitely have the chops to be out gigging or playing in a band…
I’m truly impressed with the music & the production!
Way to go amigo!!!
Tod
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Wow, such an encouraging message 
Thank you very much Tod ! It’s such a fun project and I can’t wait to go back to it when Blues Immersion ends.
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After 5 months of blues immersion, I needed a short break to go back to my rock ‘n’ roll roots. 
Here comes song #11 - Smells like Teen Spirit. This song is really fun to learn to use your amp and pedals as I used 4 different tones through the song.
In addition to the rhythm guitar, I learned the solo (at about 3 minutes) to put my new lead guitar skills in practice.
A special thanks to my laptop who died in the middle of the recording and delayed the whole process of 1 month 
Song #11: Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Aren’t the blues the roots of r & r? 
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Mathieu, I thought that was very good! You must be happy with your performance. You certainly looked it.
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@Willsie Thanks a lot John for taking a look at my project
Definitely ! I love that I can use similar techniques in both !
Great performance that was cool 
really enjoyed it. 
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That was really cool Mathieu! …and oh! I’m very happy you smile too when you play! Immersing in one genre can be good and somehow accelerate the learning process… (maybe…as I’m writing it I find it doesn’t apply much to me, despite some reasonable objectivity in it) …but taking breaks is also a very smart thing to do in many respects. Well done! Keep on rocking
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Hi Mathieu ,
I did see …I did like it and I didn`t have the chance to comment and by chance I see it again now … also here computer problems, fortunately not completely broken ones, but sometimes irritating malfunctions so that I have to restart and sometimes an irritating 
edit:no no 
…woman who suddenly has to do something for work …
This is not very blimm , at least I still played the blues while I colored outside the Blimm books 
… (.I’m not going to tell you what else I practice 
)
Nice and good attitude and always looking happy when you play
Greeting
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Thank you very much @Silvia80 and @roger_holland for encouraging me It was a fun pause, now back to blues immersion now that unit 5 is released.
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@math07 Hi Mathieu, I am starting to listen to all the songs in your rock songbook. I can’t believe I haven’t until now. My apologies for the procrastination. I was surprised by the chords in Highway to Hell. I had assumed they would all be power chords, so it was a shock to see all the open chords. But then half of what I know about playing rock on electric guitar is from module 12. The playing and tone of your playing blended well with the Moises backing track. I’ve never tried to use Moises but it looks like I’ll be trying it out soon. (Update: I just installed on my iPad). Of the next two songs, I thought that you had a better or tighter rhythm groove in song number 3 - If You Tolerate This Your Children WIll Be Next. Perhaps you just enjoyed the faster rhthym. I had to listen to the beginning again to catch the electric guitar. Sounds like some heavy chorus and reverb, although I am still an electric guitar tone noob. I didn’t catch that you were playing it at first, I thought that it was part of the backing track. Nice job on all 3 songs. I am looking forward to hearing the rest of the songs.
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Thank you very much @SteveL_G99 for watching my videos and leaving a kind comment
Same, I was suprised too ! It’s surprising how gain can make those A, D, E, G open chords sound different 
This software is a gem I was able to do all that with the free version.
You’re right. I had never heard this song before seeing it in the book, but it really clicked with me. I liked the fast rhythm and it was my first time recording two guitars on the same track, which is a fun project. The electric guitar effect was pretty cool. I could have sweared it was a chorus, but when I check back the notes in the songbook, it was a phaser pedal, a delay and reverb. It’s the only song where I used that phaser effect, I did not even remembered it haha ! I think that the preset was called scary organ like a Halloween organ song on guitar
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Hi Mathieu, I missed this completely, very busy with work recently. I can see progress in your playing, you are more confident and accuracy improved significantly. There are some slight timing issues (that fast move to single note curl/bend in the bridge, for example) but they are very minor. What I am missing the most is accenting more those muted strums (scratches). That part is very recognisable in this song.
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@math07 Hi Mathieu, thanks again for inspiring me to try the Moises app. I had been reading about it in the community for over a year and assumed that either it was expensive or difficult to use. I have a little IT experience and I think the interface is brilliantly simple and focused in purpose. I was able to use without reading any instructions or watching YouTube videos. I split out the track for Mustang Sally today and the result is amazing.
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Thanks Boris for watching the song I was indeed surprised when I watched my recording of Smells like teen spirit and noticed that the muting was pretty hard to hear in the mix. I’m not really sure about the exact cause. I guess it’s 50-50 with the technique and the tone. On the recording, I had some restrain on the attack of the muted strings as it’s hard to have a perfect mute at that speed, but I just tried another version where I go crazy on the attack and it does not sound as bad I had initially thought. Cool
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I agree, there are a lot of factors there. Tone, technique, pick, and how agreesive you strum. I experiment sometimes when I play simple power chord songs with high gain. Different types of muting produce significantly different sound. For example, just relaxing hand and muting strings is not the same as covering the strings with all 4 fingers. Different sound as well if you strum closer to neck or bridge. Palm muting then adds another dimension.
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